As we get close to 2015, we’re taking some time to look back on an exciting 2014 filled with fantastic releases! Today we turn to our June and July releases! Make sure to check back here for the rest of the recaps! Michael Samis: Reinecke Cello Concerto MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! American Record…
Michael Samis’ Reinecke Cello Concerto recording named a MusicWeb International Recording of the Month! “Michael Samis’ debut solo album is as eclectic as anything we’ve seen in years. There’s a world-premiere of a major romantic concerto, another premiere of a romantic piece updated by a beloved conductor, and two works by important contemporary composers. We…
Upon hearing the Reinecke Cello Concerto for the first time, American Record Guide critic David Moore says, “I can recommend it highly as a powerful and beautifully lyrical work, played to a turn by Samis and the orchestra.” Along with rave reactions from each of the pieces on the recording, Moore ends with praise for…
The Nashville Scene‘s “Best of Nashville 2014” has named Michael Samis’s Reinecke Cello Concerto release the “Best New Classical Recording”! “Cellist Michael Samis left the Nashville Symphony Orchestra this year to begin a solo career, and he marked this shift with the release of his debut album. The disc features the premiere recording of a…
Have a listen to the interview segments from Michael Samis interview with Middle Tennessee Public Radio’s NPR affiliate, WMOT: Part One: http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmot/audio/2014/10/samis_interview_seg_1wb_0.mp3 Part Two: http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmot/audio/2014/10/samis_interview_seg_2_wb_others_0.mp3 Buy from Delos Today! Download the Digital Booklet!
Michael Samis’s new Reinecke Cello Concerto recording has made it’s way to one Fanfare reviewer’s annual Want List! “Finally, I had no choice but to include on my Want List a disc sent to me by the performing artist and that just arrived as I was about to put a period to my 38:2 contributions.…
Terry Robbins of The WholeNote has high praise for cellist Michael Samis and his new Delos release, Reinecke: Cello Concerto: “The Reinecke concerto was written in 1864, and is a lovely, immediately accessible work clearly influenced by Reinecke’s teacher, Felix Mendelssohn. Samis has the necessary big, warm tone, and there is some lovely orchestral support…
One of Michael Samis’s Kickstarter funders has received their Reinecke: Cello Concerto CDs, and the results are in… “…a couple weeks ago, I had Michael’s dream in my hands. A CD, you see, is sometimes something more than a piece of plastic enclosed in other pieces of plastic. The concerto was everything the excerpt had…
Family review site, InfoDad gives it’s highest rating (++++) to the new Michael Samis CD, Reinecke: Cello Concerto and works by Schumann • Bloch • Tavener • Golijov! “…this is an unusual disc, and a particularly enjoyable one, because of the works selected and the inclusion of solo pieces as well as ones for cello…
Music In Cincinnati declares Michael Samis the “champion” for Carl Reinecke! “Composer Carl Reinecke has a champion in cellist Michael Samis. The attention is well deserved, as demonstrated on Samis’ new release for Delos, Reinecke: Cello Concerto. Performing with the Gateway Chamber Orchestra led by conductor Gregory Wolynec, Samis makes a splendid case for the…
Nashville Arts Magazine has a fantastic new feature on cellist Michael Samis and his new Delos CD, Reinecke: Cello Concerto, titled “Michael Samis makes Classical Cool, Romanticism Real, and Music Life-affirming.” “June marks the release of Samis’s new CD, funded last year by an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign. He’s so full of enthusiasm about the…
Reinecke: Cello Concerto
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Michael Samis launches his new CD, Reinecke: Cello Concerto (and works by Schumann, Bloch, Tavener, and Golijov), this weekend in Nashville, TN with performances and a party! Get the details here and enjoy the photos from his launch preparation below:
A LIVE performance excerpt of the Reinecke Cello Concerto: Movement I. Allegro moderato by cellist Michael Samis and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra: Pre-Order the Recording today!
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